Dancing Bow Playlist

On Sunday October 25th at 8:00 pm, I decided to listen to a playlist from the Smithsonian Global Sound collection. The collection I selected was a forty five minute playlist called Dancing Bow and Singing strings, which featured southern folk music and traditional mountain songs. The first song that played was called Cindy 116 bpm created by Tracy Schwarz. It was five minute long piece and incorporated the Fiddle, Bass guitar, and the Mandolin. This song was created in 1979 and follows the format and has the characteristics of most American folk songs. As soon as the song began I noticed that all of the instruments started at the same time and the song had a very upbeat tempo. The fast tempo gave the piece a nice motivating drive. This drive helped me hear, the melody throughout the entire songs and the motive in each section. The melody was being played by the Fiddle and Mandolin. These two instruments created harmonies when playing each phrase, because they were creating chords in the music. While this was happening the bass guitar played a different phrase.
There were different layers that stacked up on top of each other to either aligned or go against each other. This piece of music was also written in 4/4. There was a clear separation with each phrase. There was also a lot of periodicity in the music. Half we in I was able to know what phrase or melody was going to come next. There was a clear AAB format in the song. I really enjoyed how all of the instruments were stringed because the sound went together and even when there were different phrasing with the different instruments there was always a consistent consonance that I could hear. I also liked how the music was structured and how it sounded. I made a lot of connections to traditional music in the early 1900s but I also saw similarities to the music I hear